Playstation 2 First Impression
October 26, 2000 was the launch day for the Sony's Playstation 2 in US. When the PS 2 was released first in the Japan the system was sold so quick, if I remember correctly they sold over 1 million units in 1 hour, now that is something amazing for Sony to happen when they have a powerful system like the Playstation 2. So when it comes time for them to release the system in the US, they decide to do a few changes. The first thing Sony wanted to put an end to the piracy scene, mainly the mod-chip that allows you to play backups on your system. To achieve this they had to basically re-design the whole PS 2 motherboard so a mod-chip won't be possible or it wont be possible for this chip to be installed in the motherboard. Will this work? For now, but it will probably be cracked in the future by someone. Only time will tell. The next thing that probably scared Sony was the Microsoft's X-BOX which comes with a built-in Hard-Drive and the ability to surf the World Wide Web. Mainly downloading free demos of the net so you don't have to be dependent upon the game magazines to release demo cds in there each issues. fº
PS 2's graphics are top notch while I pretty much felt that most of the games for the system were pretty lame because they don't take the full power of what the PS 2 has to offer. Most of the developers released some great looking games for the system on the launch day. Only a few games were top-notch, which includes EA Sports' SSX, Rockstar Games' Midnight Club Street Racing, and Smugglers' Run, and Namco's Ridge Racer V. So far I have only played SSX of the PS 2 and hopefully soon I will be able to add more stuff to this impression as I get to try more racing games like Ridge Racer V, NASCAR 2001, Smugglers' Run, and many more to come. After receiving the ticket I had to wait another hour for the store to open so I can get my PS 2 and rush home to test it out. So I paid that big as check for $360 something for the system and brought myself SSX as my first PS 2 game. Once I got home I did the as usual plug all the appropriate wires to the VCR and pop that SSX CD into the cd-tray. When I first started to play SSX I noticed all the textures, terrains, models were real detailed which I have never seen before in a game. They were much better than the stuff found i
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